Word: reeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told Sirica: "Not to my knowledge, Your Honor." Then Ben-Veniste pointed out that a White House transcript of the President's April 17, 1973, meeting with Ehrlichman and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman ended at 4:35 p.m. while St. Clair had told the court that the reel of tape was "removed full" at 4:20 p.m. After checking, St. Clair reported to Sirica that five minutes and twelve seconds of the 45-minute conversation had not been recorded because a Secret Service technician was changing tape reels...
...concern now run so high in the White House over the tapes and the future of Richard Nixon that Bull and others have instituted a kind of Fail-Safe system to help guard the integrity of the tapes, or whatever of it remains. Bull will not handle the original reels. He gets only duplicates. He carefully takes each 5-in. reel and puts it on a small Sony tape recorder whose erase mechanism has been immobilized by White House technicians. Then he clamps earphones on his head and begins to track down the specified conversations that the court has ordered...
When the floor was opened for questions, which were mostly in a humorous vein, Bogdanovitch said he thought Daisy Miller was the best film he has made yet because "aside from it being the most recent film, no one walked out after the first reel or threw eggs at the screen...
...Reel Guts. Dellinger, who wrote his first novel, The Nightmare Factory, while in prison, says: "It takes real guts to stand up in front of a class of pretty heavy types and read your prose or poetry. But you can see what it does to an individual's self-confidence to have the experience, and you can watch them grow." Some of his favorite writers have not yet been published professionally. Gary Taylor, who just finished eighteen months for drug addiction, used his time working on a novel. Dellinger says of Margaret Martinez, a prolific young Chicano...
...House of Entertainment and wears the black hat; Cagney, though an outlaw, wears a white one. The first time I saw The Oklahoma Kid, I predicted I would finally see Cagney speak his memorable line ("You dirty rat. You killed my brother.") at the end of the last reel. But he doesn't, and my Cagney Fan Club sources tell me he never said it in any movie...